New Harp, Texas
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Montague-Forestburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76239. The Survey maps it on the New Harp quadrangle. 8 people lived here at the 2000 count.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1954 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Sherman quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS New Harp quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Denton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of New Harp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,660 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | VALKMAN FIRE |
| 23 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MOWER |
| 22 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | TRASH BARRELS |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 150 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MERRITT ROAD FIRE |
| 9 August 2011 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | HAMMER LIGHTNING |
| 27 August 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests And Grasslands In Texas | PINE |
| 20 August 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | ROSSTON RD FIRE |
| 19 August 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | RUSH CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Harp in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Hail | New Harp | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forestburg | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Smyrna | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Hardy | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Dry Valley | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Mallard | 9.9 miles | 10 | |
| Sunset | 10.3 miles | 8 | |
| Salona | 11.3 miles | 10 | |
| Gladys | 11.8 miles | 10 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on New Harp | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q122552377 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1382383. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.




